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by mkstowegnv 3056 days ago
I implore you to solicit users who will volunteer their spam folders so that you can improve your algorithm. It has always been badly broken for me and many if not most people I know (worst story my lawyer friend who finds important email from judges in this spam folder). Right now my spam folder is 171 emails that are 80% legitimate. Most of them are messages from political groups and businesses that I don't care about, but about once every other month I curse when I find something that does matter. I move some "spam" emails to my Inbox but I do not have time to train your system by correcting all the mistakes. It is so bad that I would prefer not to have the spam removed and see all my email with some kind of "might be spam" flagging to aid my speedreading of the daily torrent.